At 14:31 9/17/97, luche@adl.auslink.net wrote:

At 08:57 PM 9/16/97 -0700, you wrote:

Here in Japan, the drinking age is 20. I have been here for over three
years and I have yet to find any high school students in any of the
bars. If there are any students that drink, they probably get the beer

>from their parents. Then again stealing from your parents is highly

disgraceful and no one wants to disgrace themselves here. Personal
pride is very important to the people of Japan.

Zushi

Gomen.. my apologies for my earlier post.. apparently I've been misinformed..

Two things I would like to clear up though... Legal ages for smoking
tobacco, playing pachinko, sex... it would be interesting to find out, nee..

Dunno about tobacco or pachinko, (think pachinko is 18, but am not sure)
but the legal age of consent in Japan is 13.  However, to be employed in
the 'industry' as it were, you must be at least 18.

Danke

Ja ne.

Zen no Itan-sha